Walmart's Video Download Service Predictably Sucks

We tried to take a look at Walmart’s new video download service, but hey, guess what. It doesn’t work in Firefox. So our review is this:

• This sucks and doesn’t work in Firefox.

Also, BoingBoing tells us that if we could actually access the site, we’d be “paying $20 for a 240X320 movie in a DRM-laden Windows Media file that won’t play on a Zune or an iPod, or a computer running Mac or Linux.” Yeah, no thanks.—MEGHANN MARCO

Good thing they put that “BETA” tag up at the top of the page. That way, they don’t have to make sure the site works correctly. They can just chalk it up to “We’re still in beta” rather than having to file it under “We suck because we don’t adequately test our product before releasing it to the public.”

Is anyone else getting really tired of everyone jumping on the “beta” bandwagon rather than making sure their crap works?

Best video download service by far in terms of price and quality is Xbox Live via Xbox360. The selection isnt huge but being able to download and watch TV shows and movies in HD is very nice and you can watch while its streaming.

It takes about an hour before you can start watching a movie in HD that has a file size around 6 gigs (10 min for 1hr tv show) or about 3 min for a SD movie and almost instantly for a SD tv show.

Meghann – Firefox users with Adblock see the “read more” box overlapping the bottom of the post. I don’t exactly expect y’all to go out of your way to help people blocking your ads. Anyways, there are some userstyles for the Stylish extension that take care of that and make a couple other little visual tweaks.